Shameless Self Expression

The Spengler family (Carrie Coon, kids McKenna Grace and Finn Wolfhard, and partner Paul Rudd) are now New Yorkers and their ghost busting antics have earned the attention of the one and only Dickless, I mean former EPA inspector Walter Peck (William Atherton) who is now the city’s mayor. He’s utterly bemused and threatens to shut the operation down, before Coon offers to stand Grace down for being underage. Grace is upset but finds a new friend in Emily Alyn Lind, whom she quickly realises is a ghost. Meanwhile, original ghostbuster Ray Stantz (Dan Aykroyd) unwittingly unleashes a paranormal evil when opening a brass ball artefact. Ray…what did you do ? Annie Potts, Ernie Hudson, and eventually Bill Murray turn up to reprise their franchise roles. British comedian James Acaster is here because the film was partly filmed in the UK and they wanted to qualify for tax relief. He plays the head of a paranormal research and development centre. Kumail Nanjiani turns up as the guy who sells R...

In what is absolutely not a forerunner to “Rush Hour” , Cop and widower Leo Fong teams up with ATF agent Richard Roundtree to take down nutty crime lord Cameron Mitchell and his arms dealer cohort named Nighthawk (Stack Pierce). Hope Holliday turns up as a madam, James Lew is a henchman, and that’s a young, baby-faced Branscombe Richmond talking to Fong in a locker room at one point. You’ve seen him get beaten up by most of your favourite 80s action heroes at some point. It’s his thing.   Producer-star-golem Leo Fong combines with “Aftershock” director Frank Harris in this 10c action movie from 1984. Harris also scripts, produces, edits, and serves as cinematographer here. Co-star Hope Holliday serves as casting director and associate producer due to the apparent advice of her friend and co-star Cameron Mitchell, having produced several other Mitchell 80s cheapies as well. What’s my point? This whole film plays like a bunch of slumming colleagues and friends got together to pr...